A Progress Report on the Pre-Phase A Design of HyperSat

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Lammens, Robert
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Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering
The Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics was established in 1931, with a name change in 1962 to the School of Aerospace Engineering
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The Georgia Tech Space Systems Design Laboratory is currently in the process of developing HyperSat. It is a 12U CubeSat designed to maneuver into a highly eccentric orbit with its periapsis inside the Earth’s upper atmosphere. This will allow the CubeSat to perform its primary function of traveling through the Earth’s upper atmosphere and collecting hypersonic CFD data. This paper details the design progress of the mission as of the end of the Summer 2024 academic semester, including a general overview of the spacecraft’s budgets for mass, volume, and data generation. The communications architecture is laid out with design decisions for the onboard comms hardware, the ground station availability, and the available time to beam down scientific data. Lastly, some brief observations on how the design of the CubeSat may affect the post-launch spacecraft operations procedures are provided.
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2024-08
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